This is regarding promoting you're blog or website advertising them with YouTube. I dont care what you do, if you aint video blogging, you aint doing jack. If you are not producing videos and posting them on places like youtube, break, metacafe, dailymotion, yahoo video, myspace video, face book and aol video - you are wasting your time. Write your articles, submit to your directories, submit your site to all the social bookmarking sites you want. While you are doing that, I will be posting my videos and driving targeted traffic to my sites. Forget directories, forget everything you think you know about driving traffic. If you do not have a video blog, if you are not selling yourself to your audience - every day you will be slipping behind your competition. The last video I posted on youtube got over 5,191 views in less then 10 days. That ten days just happens to be today. Keep using those stone age tactics, your competition will thank you later. For those of you that may not understand the "real" power behind youtube - its not 100% youtube. What? That can not be right? The common statement is - If a video is on youtube, only people that go to youtube will see it, right? That statement is WRONG!!! There has been a trend developing over the last few months, its getting bigger and bigger. Website owners that are stuck in the stone age, dont have a clue to what is changing right under their noses. There are hundreds of people on the internet that will help you promote your site, and for FREE!! You could have the help of a small army to push your videos and site advertisements to every search engine on the internet, and in every spoken language. ----- I bet yall think I am full of dog poop right now ------ One of the fastest growing trends is video sites that pull their videos from youtube, metacafe, dailymotion - but mainly youtube. The server host nothing but a script and keywords to search youtube for. When the video is found, a webpage is created and the video along with the description is embedded into the page. The website owner profits from the adsense put next to the video. This means the owner of the site has a financial interest in streaming as many videos as they can with as many search keywords as they can. Here is an example - http://www.berm.co.nz/cgi-bin/video/...gi?vrWakdZ4JIE I have no idea who this place is, but that is my video - straight from youtube. If you click the video to start it playing, then click it again you will be taken to the videos location on youtube. Notice all the banners around the video. Who ever owns this site has a financial interest in streaming videos. New sites like that one are popping up almost daily. These sites are being discussed on webmaster forums all around the world. The more videos and pages these sites offer, the more traffic they get, the more money they make. What do I get? I get my videos streamed to a wider audience then just the people that visit youtube. I post a video, untold sites stream my video straight from youtube, I get free advertising, the site gets free content. In the past few months Metacafe and AOL video has started streaming videos from youtube. So its not just the small people that are streaming videos from youtube, its also the big players like AOL. There are --->insert some big number here<--- video sites that leach off youtube. Use these sites to your advantage, use them to promote your website, forum or blog. When metacafe and AOL started streaming youtube videos, this helped tap into other markets. Who knows when the next big player will jump onto the youtube band wagon. Right now I have a small army of volunteers helping me pimp my forum. Waiting in the flanks are untold hundreds looking for ways to help me. Every video I upload, every keyword I add in my vidoes, just gives me that extra leverage to over take my competition. The question to whoever is reading this, whos army is bigger, mine or yours? You go ahead and write your article and post it some on some article publishing site - and hope someone reads it. While your doing that, my army is growing in strength every day. Webmasters are faced with new challenges as technology changes. As videos become more popular, site owners will have a choice - evolve and adapt. Or, have the bones of your website ground into dust and blown away in the wind. How do you fele about this? Source: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=562868
http://www.berm.co.nz/cgi-bin/video/play.cgi?vrWakdZ4JIE that is the working link to the vid in this post... it went dead wen copied over But yeh I have been using youtube for ages making money... havent been using it for my blogs though. I might start though see if i cant make more money.
Depends on what kind of blog you have. If it's a comedy blog, you could make a killing on youtube. If it's a blog about a niche like sweating, it's going to be a little bit harder.
Firstly... who would be writing about sweating lol? But if u were... u could broaden that to sumthing like health and fitness... then uv got a winner right there
I thought about that too lol, I don't see how anyone would be interested in writting about sweating. First blog of today: My arm pits smell like sour graps, 100 comments: awesome blog!
Video blogs seem to be certainly the way to go at this point. Almost all the big time bloggers are doing it almost daily. Nice thread
How much traffic has You tube driven to your site? My site had videos with over 50000 views per vid and the traffic never changed
Video will never beat keyword targeted natural search traffic. Nothing can ever be as targeted as that, video viewers are general.
^^I agree with webwork Though if one wants to attract huge traffic then video posting is a real good alternative I am also planning of posting videos in youtube...
using youtube as marketing is common sense, my cousin made a video link to a song that leaked off a 50 cent album like 3 weeks early,got 800,000 views in less than a week, imagine if he put a amazon aff link and told ppl "dont forget to pre order"..
Sir, I am honored that you thought enough of my post to copy it and post it here. Video blogs compliment text blogs. If the title and the first couple of paragraphs are done well enough, it should give your article all the keywords it needs. Since google can not index the audio of a video, and convert it into text, there is not way for website articles or blogs to be fully posted in video. Even though video blogs may never replace text blogs, the two can work together to give the viewer a better "viewing" experience of your site. Example: This is my site, and my video. And yes, that is really me in the video. The first and second paragraphs are filled with key words, such as gps, garmin, topo map, compass, silva, usgs map. http://www.survivalforum.us/navigation-while-on-a-hiking-trip/ This is from my Google Analytics account: Source ------------------- Traffic google (organic)----------- 37,378 youtube.com (referral) ---- 4,246 There is a running poll in the new members section - http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=10336 The poll is not an exact test of traffic, but its the best I can get. The poll has been running for almost 4 months and youtube has held the lead the entire time. And - youtube has maintained the same ratio over google for those 4 months. There have been slight changes, but not much. Even though google referred 8 - 9X the traffic, more people from youtube signed up. I do not know how to do the exact math on figuring the traffic ratio, 4,246 compared to 37,378, and then youtube having a lead in the poll. When the poll hit around 100 vote for youtube, google was only around 60 votes. That is how I came up with the 40%. The current poll shows 207 for youtube, and 160 for google. Subtract 100 from each number. That gives us 107 and 60. subtract 7 more, 53 subtracted from 100 = 47%. Someone correct my math if its off, which I expect to be.
Kev, please check you're PM. I have given the source I got the content from when I first posted the content, please do not feel I have bene copying you're content because this is not correct.